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AYE WRITE! Glasgow’s annual book celebration is back Bringing readers, writers and story-lovers of all ages together, Glasgow’s annual book festival returns with a punchy programme featuring local and international names. A well-loved annual fi xture in Scotland’s literary calendar, Aye Write! has been inviting speakers to Glasgow’s Mitchell Library since 2007. This year, the potential impact of Brexit will feature as a theme throughout the festival. It will also welcome a distinct set of headliners, including journalist and triathlete Louise Minchin (pictured), bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernières and musician Tracey Thorn. The doors to one of Europe’s largest public libraries will also be thrown wide to welcome writers like Gina
Miller, Paul Mason, Kamal Ahmed, Lionel Shriver and Alan Johnson while folk-punk sensation Frank Turner will discuss his new book, Try This at Home. Plus some of the biggest names in Scottish fi ction (Val McDermid and Alexander McCall Smith to name a couple) will be in town to chat about books old and new.
The fun will take place across three extended weekends in March while Wee Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival for Children and Young People also returns at the start of the month with a schools programme and hugely exciting Family Day at the Mitchell Library. (Lynsey May) ■ Various venues, Glasgow, Thu 14–Sun 31 Mar.
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